Mikneh Avram - Peculium Abrae

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

BALMES, ABRAHAM DE.

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1523

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages

references

Vinograd, Venice 81; Mehlmman 1868; Habermann, Bomberg 76; not in Adams

summary

Greatly valued by contemporary Christian Hebraists, de Balmes prepared this grammar at the urging of the printer Bomberg. It was published in two issues, with and without a Latin translation. Heinrich Graetz in his Geschichte (vol. IX, 215) has attempted to suggest that the translation was prepared by Bomberg himself. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909) pp. 169-72

Some worming (taped) through several concluding ff., trace stained, contemporary limp vellum, shaken and worn, 4to

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